The legal principle that a person or a party that has acted in bad faith or fraudulently with regard to a dispute will be unable to use the court system to right a wrong that eventually they may face arising out of the same circumstances. For example, a car mechanic who did not have a license and failed to do a reasonably good job fixing a consumers car will not be able to use … [Read more...] about CLEAN HANDS DOCTRINE
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CLEMENT'S INN
An inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY. … [Read more...] about CLEMENT'S INN
CLERK
(A) commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. He differs from a factor in this, that the latter wholly supplies the place of his principal in respect to the property consigned to him. Pard. Dr. Com. n. 38, 1 Chit. Pract. 80; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1287. (B) eccl. law. Every … [Read more...] about CLERK
CLEAN ROOM
(A) A room that is free of contaminants and objects that would cause static, electromagnetic reactions and the like so that work, such as a forensic analysis, can be accomplished without fear of damaging electronically stored data. (B) An isolated room for development of special materials, typically to ensure that the work is authentic and is not copied. … [Read more...] about CLEAN ROOM
CLENGE
In old Scotch law. To dear or acquit of a criminal charge. Literally, to deanse or clean. … [Read more...] about CLENGE